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| Title |
Gun Ownership and Firearm-related Deaths
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|---|---|
| Published in |
American Journal of Medicine, October 2013
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| DOI | 10.1016/j.amjmed.2013.04.012 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Sripal Bangalore, Franz H. Messerli |
| Abstract |
A variety of claims about possible associations between gun ownership rates, mental illness burden, and the risk of firearm-related deaths have been put forward. However, systematic data on this issue among various countries remain scant. Our objective was to assess whether the popular notion "guns make a nation safer" has any merits. |
X Demographics
The data shown below were collected from the profiles of 539 X users who shared this research output. Click here to find out more about how the information was compiled.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 125 | 23% |
| United Kingdom | 71 | 13% |
| Canada | 16 | 3% |
| Australia | 10 | 2% |
| Germany | 3 | <1% |
| Comoros | 3 | <1% |
| Ireland | 3 | <1% |
| Chile | 3 | <1% |
| Austria | 3 | <1% |
| Other | 23 | 4% |
| Unknown | 279 | 52% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 486 | 90% |
| Scientists | 29 | 5% |
| Practitioners (doctors, other healthcare professionals) | 16 | 3% |
| Science communicators (journalists, bloggers, editors) | 8 | 1% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 96 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United States | 2 | 2% |
| Unknown | 94 | 98% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 22 | 23% |
| Student > Bachelor | 17 | 18% |
| Student > Master | 14 | 15% |
| Researcher | 10 | 10% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 7 | 7% |
| Other | 11 | 11% |
| Unknown | 15 | 16% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences | 21 | 22% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 20 | 21% |
| Psychology | 11 | 11% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 7 | 7% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 6 | 6% |
| Other | 13 | 14% |
| Unknown | 18 | 19% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 964. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 28 March 2024.
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#17,376
of 25,709,917 outputs
Outputs from American Journal of Medicine
#10
of 7,927 outputs
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#73
of 220,746 outputs
Outputs of similar age from American Journal of Medicine
#1
of 107 outputs
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